1. CSE486/586 Distributed Systems
Mid-term Exam
CSE486/586
Distributed Systems
4/16/2019
B.Ramamurthy

2. Topics Distributed Systems(DS): Chapter 1- 5 except ch.6
Characterization of and challenges in DS: Ch.1
System models: Ch.2
IP routing: Ch.3
Inter-process communication: Ch.4 (IP multicast, group communication, etc.)
Distributed Object and remote Invocations (RMI and web services): Ch.5
4/16/2019
B.Ramamurthy

3. Exam Format
You may bring 5 sheets of any information you like; copy of the book pages, power point notes
No definitions
Be precise and use code samples where ever needed.
5 questions with subsections
Total points will be scaled down to 100 points.
4/16/2019
B.Ramamurthy

4. Sample Topics for Questions
Project 1: Webservices, jdbc, XMLparsing
Distributed object model
Distributed programming (as in IP routing)
System architecture
Word problem to UML design of a distributed system (Class diagram)
4/16/2019
B.Ramamurthy

5. Time and Date March 18, Thursday from 5.00 – 6.20PM 4/16/2019
B.Ramamurthy

6. Theme Distributed data and distributed algorithms
Examples: Distributed routing tables, distributed garbage collection
If you worked on the project, you should be able to answer questions on the project.
4/16/2019
B.Ramamurthy